Mine detail: Kigluaik Mountains Graphite District

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 65.04319, -165.54083

Resource(N)

Primary: Graphite
Discovery year: 1900

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: DISSEMINATED FLAKE
Production size: Yes
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1912
Last production ended: 1917

Geology

Structure:UPTHROWN HORST BLOCK

References

MRDSISM0068
DEP60000531
Reference{Deposit:: COATS, R.R., 1944, GRAPHITE DEPOSITS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE KIGLUAIK MOUNTAINS, SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MEMO. REPT.IOP}{Deposit:: HARRINGTON, G.L., 1919, GRAPHITE MINING IN SEWARD PENINSULA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL.692, P.363-367}{Deposit:: MOFFIT, F.H., 1913, GEOLOGY OF THE NOME AND GRAND CENTRAL QUADRANGLES, ALASKA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 533, P.135-136}{Deposit:: SAINSBURY, C.L., 1969, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE CENTRAL YORK MOUNTAINS WESTERN SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL.1287}